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Health Security and Disease Surveillance: Responding to Global Health Threats
Pages 126-129

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From page 126...
... Despite these efforts, new disease outbreaks and the rising burden of chronic diseases continue to challenge worldwide health and stability, underscoring the importance of adaptive, coordinated strategies for disease surveillance and response. The Corona-Warn-App from Germany's Robert Koch Institute, Health workers traveling to perform COVID-19 which was used for COVID-19 contact tracing (iStock®)
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From page 127...
... in 2000 Now known as the GBD, the project has provided a the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to engage resources for rapid communication, comprehensive tool to quantify the health burden and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious identification, confirmation, and response from diseases, injuries, and health risk factors. Diseases released research and response plans to public health emergencies of international The GBD has estimated morbidity and mortality for emerging infectious diseases.
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From page 128...
... roughly 80 percent of cases have occurred in Saudi Margaret Chan speaks at a news conference in Arabia, and sporadic outbreaks continue to occur Geneva, Switzerland, February 1, 2016, after the first meeting of the International Health Regulations across the Arabian Peninsula as scientists work to Emergency Committee concerning the Zika virus The 2015 Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance develop an effective vaccine and treatment. and observed increase in neurological disorders and neonatal malformations.
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From page 129...
... Spread primarily The spread of the virus that causes infection by the virus. Later that year, researchers through respiratory droplets, the virus causes mild COVID-19 exposed weaknesses in discovered that Zika virus disease can produce symptoms in most people, but about 20 percent of adverse outcomes in the children of pregnant those infected in the initial stages of the epidemic systems designed to promote health women, including an increased risk of preterm became seriously ill, with one-quarter of those security and disease surveillance.
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